Flash over Orange, CA
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The report, as filed
Car radio goes dead, bright light.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1974-02-12 → 1974-03-01
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May 20, 2023 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
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(4:30pm) I walked out of AutoZone towards my car. There was a chill in the air, and wind gusts at approx 6-8mph. I looked up at the low dark fast moving scattered clouds in the sky. During a quick break in the clouds I saw a white stationary-shape-changing -object. For a few minutes it was shimmering off the setting Sun. The object was above the moving clouds. -Not going through them. For 10 minutes. I didn't have my glasses on, I couldn't see the complete details of the object. So I asked a guy working on his truck if he could see what the object was. He said "it looked like one or two of those white spy balloons." A few minutes later, when I was next to my car. The object appeared to change shape, *(like a pulsating piece of chewed bubble gum) and become a darker gray color and started floating North for approx 12 minutes. *(slower than the moving clouds) (4:52pm) As the sun set and the sky grew darker I lost sight of the object. I saw the object a total of 7 times between the clouds during the 22 minutes I watched it. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
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January 17, 2021 · 5:30 AM · OTHER
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August 14, 2018 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Orange, CA
Heard a very strange hum then saw an object in the east and then another one come from the north. They crisscrossed each other then disappeared. Triangle shape with lights. We spoke with the witness, and have corrected above the time and duration of the sighting event. PD
March 29, 2017 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Orange, CA
We walked out onto the patio and 3 red glowing lights were in the sky. One was very large, the other two slightly smaller. No sound and they weren't moving at all. Then a 4th one floated up and also stayed still. All of them were bright red, like the brake lights of a car. And they had large red glows/auras around them. I heard someone down the street yell, "What is that?" I tried to take a pic but they only showed up as white dots. They were there for a good 10 minutes, then they faded out and disappeared. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD